University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research

As part of the Foundation’s How Housing Matters to Families and Communities initiative, researchers at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research will assess how the Masterpiece Living program--a senior health and wellness intervention developed through the MacArthur Research Network on Successful Aging--affects residents of an affordable housing retirement community. Researchers hypothesize that residents will report gains in well-being, demonstrate improved mobility and balance, present fewer medical risk factors and increase their voluntary and productive activity. On the community level, they anticipate that there will be a reduced need for medical care and transfers to nursing and assisted living facilities.

To support participation in the Network on Successful Pathways through Middle Childhood.

To support participation in the Network on Successful Pathways through Middle Childhood (over three years).

To support research on intellectual collaboration as evidenced in MacArthur Mental Health Research Networks.